Supreme Court of the United States February 18, 1878, 175 (Noyes v. Hall)

Mr. Justice Clifford

delivered the opinion of the court.

Antecedent to the claim of the respondent, the unincumbered fee-simple title of the premises was in the father of the complainant. On the 26th of April, 1858, the owner of the tract, consisting of a farm of eighty acres, being indebted to the respondent in the sum of $1,075, mortgaged the farm to him to secui-e the-payment of that sum.